Genesis 50:1-14 - Jacob's Burial

¹ And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. ² And Joseph commanded his servants that were physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel forty days long, ³ for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days.

⁴ And when the days of weeping were ended, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favour in your eyes, speak unto Pharaoh and tell him, how that ⁵ my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."

⁶ And Pharaoh said, "Go and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."

⁷ And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of Egypt, ⁸ and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen. ⁹ And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company. ¹⁰ And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Jordan, there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father seven days. ¹¹ When the inhabiters of the land the Canaanites saw the mourning in the field of Atad, they said, "This is a great mourning which the Egyptians make." Wherefore the name of the place is called Abelmizraim, which place lieth beyond Jordan.

¹² And his sons did unto him according as he had commanded them. ¹³ And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre. ¹⁴ And Joseph returned to Egypt again, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, as soon as he had buried him.